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Drawing is so integral to all art, and in and of itself, I consider it to be as major an art form as any. With such an emphasis on traditional art and methods being taught again in many atelier's and other schools around the world drawing is rising to an importance in art that it has probably never had before. It is wonderful to see so many younger artist's today learning those methods and learning to become such excellent draughtsmen (and women) Traditional realism is alive and thriving and hopefully through Crosshatching's I can add my own little niche to such a great body of work existing now. Enjoy your visit here!

Saturday, October 8, 2011

The woodworking about complete!


Have worked on all that wood texture the last few days - looked at it and thought "Holy crap, it really took me that long to draw wood?" Yeah, it did. If the devil is in the details then I do tend to sell my soul sometimes, but I am a realist after all...
This is where we stand as of now, working the glass reflections and whatever lies behind the panes.

3 comments:

Rosalie Wrona said...

You have done an amazing job on the wood. You must be a very patient man :)

Katherine Thomas said...

I know how much detail is involved in weathered wood! I love to draw it too. This is a very nice composition! So creative!

Michael Bailey said...

Rosalie and Katherine-
Thank you both. I am always amazed at how much detail is in weathered wood and love drawing it. Sometimes parts of it are fairly easily done but other parts can be a bugger. I'm having fun though. With this one complete it will be included in a gallery submission so this one is rather important to me to have done well.